[plug] [OT] Changing logic boards on failed seagate drives?

[Fred Janon]

I did it several times with different drives with some success, since I
did not know if the controller was dead or the drive itself. A couple
of time it worked, recently on several 2.5". There was a bad batch of
IBM drives in Dell laptops and I also fed my laptop with cereal and
milk one morning. I was lucky to have the same drive to borrow the
controller to get the data off it. I am not sure of what you mean by
exact same controller. I don't know if mine had the same firmware on
them, but definitely the same controller type for the same drive.

--- Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone here ever changed the logic board on a failed seagate
> drive
> without or without success?
> 
> I notice they are fairly easy to remove with the right screw-bit. Did
> you require the exact same logic board to get data off the drive?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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